The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-16
DRINKS OF POPULAR PEOPLE.
Cups that Have Cheered Rulers,
Writers and Actors OF Note.

Writers and Actors OF Note.
From the London Telegraph,
Perhaps one might theorize about char
acter from favorite drinks as much as from
''palmistry" or handwriting Let us see:
Napoleon had the heart, if ever man had
of despot. He drank strong black coffee
the Sultan's drink, and Chambertin, the rich
wine of princess Cromwell and George of
Clarence were both ambitious, with very
opposite endings Both loved Mamsey,
which, tradition asserts, drowned the latter
in the Jewel Tower Richelieu, the cold
crafty, calculating cardinal, loved the thin
red wine of Medoc
The magnificent and high-spirited mon
arch, Henry VIII and Francis of France,
loved what Fallstaff holds to be so inspirit-
ng-namely, "a good sherris sack. Ed
mund kean's erratic magnificent genius and
mad career were nourished on brandy,
which was, indeed, life to the unhappy
tragedian Dogan tells us that after his re-
turn, utterly broken, in 1927, only constant
glasses of drown brandy, very hot and
very strong enabled him to get through
his scenes. Addison's polished, equable
essays We're written on moderate potationS
OF excellent claret Charles Lamb, most
perennially charming of essayists, was a
thorough Londoner in heart, and his favor
| lte uIlllh was genuine LOuIiOn pOIuN. L lbu
and Eldon, who represented the older order
of things, both loved port, of which the
Chancellor could drink three BOTTLES.
Peter the Great was genius and equally
barbarian, with fiery temper and I'M
bridled will. We are not surprised, speak
| ing as theorists, to find that his favorite
beverage was brandy with pepper. King
| John was an unbridled and fiercely crnel
! tyrant. And if, as G. r. Sims says in one
Of or
make him fiend, what wonders For King
John loved draughts of new ale, surfeit of
which, with peaches, is supposed to have
| led to his death Dr. Johnson was strange
mixture of toryism of the ancient eighteenth
century school-broad and many-lined
knowledge and goodness of heart and life
and great nervousness. He loved, in
moderation, punch and port wine, and, by
his own description, was "a hardened and
shameless tea drinker, whose kettle had
seldom time to COOL" One cannot
theorize about Person, the famous
Greek scholar, who, it is said,
could leap" from memory any line quoted
from the three Greek tragedians, Eschuy-
lus, SophocleS or Euripides, for he drank
anything. Indeed, it is said, in lady's alb
sence with the keys, he vowed, much to
her husbands annoyance, that she had a
private bottle of spirits, and rummaging
|
annoyance, of which he drank the contents.
He left on the lady's return. Her husband
having mentioned this in a vexed manner,
she said, Good Heavens! 1t was the bottle
of spirits for the lamp" Sir Ashley Cooper,
the great surgeon (who in 1915 received
during the various months of the year
e21, 900 in fees, and who, shaving at his
profession twelve hours daily, said he could
digest anything but ''sawdust,n drank two
tumblers of water at dinner and two glasses
never exceeding them-of port wine after
ward. Talleyrand's cold and discriminating
nature was summed up in his advice to his
subordinates, above all, no zeal!" His
favorite potation was claret in moderate
glasses. Henri Quatre, Frances favorite
monarch, whose chivalrous memory even
the fierce republican mobs of 1899 at first
respected, loved the wines of Surennes, and
never, as a rule, drank anything else.
Byron was fond Of two very different pota-
tions, which. perhaps, one might fancifully
say, were typical of his two styles of poet
ry-one was hook and soda water, then @
very new beverage in England; the other
was gin and water. Frederick the Great
like a good many other persons, had par
ticular affection for 'Tokao Peter the
Great thought Madeira the best Of wines
but regarded brandy superior to all Other
drinks. Rubens had the strange taste tC
esteem MARSHA the finest of wines